This substantial (over 2,000 pages), four-volume book by Xing Ziling, a member of the Chinese Communist Party, a former soldier in the People’s Liberation Army,…

At a time when attention is increasingly focused on the question of potential candidates to succeed Jiang Zemin and Zhu Rongji at the head of…

This work is the outcome of an international conference held in Leiden in October 1998 the object of which was to draw a picture of…

China is an immense chessboard on which a dynamic and complicated game is in progress. A better understanding of this space, and especially of the…

This book is in fact a second edition of a previous work, published in 1992 with the two parts of the title reversed. The first…

The main claim of this study by a researcher at the Singapore Institute of Southeast Asian Studies is that it provides a comprehensive summary of…

Even for the tourist that I was at the beginning of the 1960s, it has bee hard to forget the severe restrictions that lay heavy…

Here is another story, but different, of the educated young being sent to the frontier provinces to be educated/reformed among the poor and medium lower…

This is a collection of 13 essays about various aspects of life in Hong Kong after its reversion to China in July 1997. As common…

The Politics of Hong Kong’s Reversion to China is a book completed in 1996, one year before the reversion of Hong Kong to China in…